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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

SETH D. TRIPP, OF STONEHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO I-IIMSELF AND LUTHER HILL, OF SAME PLACE.

APPARATUS FOR FEEDING PEGS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 25,472, dated September 13, 1859.

L To all whom it may concern: to describe the manner in which I have car- 55 Be it known that I, SETH D. TRIPP, of ried out the same. Stoneham, in the county of Middlesex and In the drawings A represents a portion of State of Massachusetts, have invented anew the bed of a pegging machine, to any conand Improved Peg-Feeding Apparatus for venient part of which is attached an arm Boot-Pegging Machines, of which the fol- B, which carries at its outer end a spindle C, 60 lowing is a full, clear, and exact description, on the upper end of which revolves the disk reference being had to the accompanying D, supported on a shoulder, o. This disk drawings, making part of this speciiication, has attached to its upper surface a ring a of in whicha height corresponding to the width of the Figure l, is a plan; Fig. 2, an elevation; Sheets or the length of the pegs-around 65 z Figs. 3 and 4i, details to be referred to. which the sheets of pegs 7', are coiled in as In boot and shoe pegging machines as at many layers as the size of the disk will acpresent constructed, (such for example of COmmOdatel5 that for which Letters Patent of the United 'A hOlZOIiiLl iLrIn F, ShOWn detached in States were granted to me on the eighth day Flg. 3 has a collar G which embraces the 70 of September 1857) th@ peg .feeding arspindle C, and rests on a shoulder t, and v1- rangement consists of a straight trough in bllteS freely around the center o2. In one which is placed the strip or sheet from @11d of this arm F is formed a slot in which the pegs are to be split by the inawhich is carried a shaft d, attached to the chine, which strip or blank is fed forward arm by a Suitable nut and Washers, So that 75 as fast as the pegs are used. If but a single it may slide in the Slot b, toward and from strip were placed in this trough it would the center a?, toward which it is drawn by have to be of an inconvenient length, to hold spring I-I, attached to this shaft and to a a sufficient quantity of pegs; to obviate this pin 0, at the opposite end of the arm F.

a number of such strips are placed in par- The shaft CZ carries a spool I, on which the S0 ,5, allel rows in a wider trough and are pressed brass ribbon f, is wound up as the sheet of up to one side of it by a suitable spring, so pegs is fed up. A ratchet wheel g, on the that as one strip is fed forward out of the top of the spool is operated by pawls h, on trough another will be pressed up to take an arm Z which vibrates around the shaft d its place. The pressure of these strips and is operated by a rod m, pivoted to it at 85 l, against each other and against the side of 5,-1nd at its other end tO d Crank K, WhiCh the trough occasions considerable friction, is vibrated at the propel' intervals by some and when some of the strips occur in short portion of the pegging machine which has lengths, as they frequently do, the ends over the required motion (for example by the lap in the trough and interrupt the smoothknife which splits off the pegs). 90 ness and uniformity of feed which is so de- The trough M, which carries the strip of sirable. pegs up to the work is formed of two parts The obj ect of my present invention is to l and 2, oined together by a sleeve a, which 40 obviate this difficulty and to produce a feed allo-ws a slight play to the trough at this arrangement in which the varying lengths point. The portion 2 rests on the disk D, 95 of sheets of pegs may be placed in a conin contact with the ribbon j", where it is siderable quantity, and be delivered therewound off onto the spool I, so that the blank from more smoothly and uniformly than passes from the disk into the trough M, as heretofore; and consists in the employment the blank is fed up. The other portion 1 of for this purpose of a revolving disk or table the trough is attached to the swinging on which the sheets of pegs are placed in gate or that part of the pegging machine k spiral layers with a ribbon of sheet brass or which moves to accommodate itself to the other suitable material interposed between varying Width and thickness of the dier- 50 the layers of pegs; this ribbon being wound ent portions of the sole. This motion of the off onto a suitable spool as the sheets are trough M, longitudinally, requires that the fed up. strip of pegs on the disk D, shall be kept That others skilled in the art may underup to the end of the trough, at or near the stand and use my invention, I will proceed point where the ribbon f leaves the blank.

stava To insure this a rod o, is attached to the sleeve n, and also to the vibrating arm F, at 6 so that as the trough M, is moved back and forth this arm will be vibrated and the spool I, will follow its movements. (The disk D, revolving freely accommodates itself to the movement of the spool I.) The crank K, is supported from the portion l of the trough M i In the drawings the trough IWI, is repret sented as supported on a post L Which rests on a socket on the bed A, but in practice When the trough is attached to the pegging machine, this support will be dispensed With..

The sheets of pegs r, are placed in the trough M, and are also Wound spirally around the box a on the disk D; While the disk is being filled with sheets of pegs, the pawls are tripped from the ratchet g and the ribbon f is unvvound from the spool I, by turning the disk D, in the direction of the arrow7 7, andthe ribbon is Wound onto the disk in connnection with the sheets of pegs. Each layer of pegs, as it is Wound on the disk has the ribbon f, interposed between it and the next layer. As the crank K, is vibrated by the motions of the pegging apparatus, the rod m, vibrates the arm Z, and revolves the spool I--Winding up the ribbon f onto it, (the teeth of the ratchet Wheel g correspond to the thickness of the pegs.) This revolves the disk D, and feeds the strips or sheets of pegs into the end of the trough M, which is next to the disk and the contents of the trough are gradually pushed forward as required` Asthe pegs are fed oii from the disk D, the spool I, aps proaches the spindle C, being drawn up by the spring H.

By the above arrangement I am enabled to supply the machine With a large amount of blanks, Without having to carry their Weight and that of the thing which contains them, on the moving parts of the pegging machine, at the same time that I obtain the necessary freedom of motion for the end of the peg trough which is connected with the moving parts of the pegging machine.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent as an improvement in boot and shoe pegging machines l. Winding up the blank or strip of pegs with the ribbon j so that as the ribbon is f Witnesses SAMUEL FIELD, L. L. LYNELE. 

